Combination Pool and Lake Kayak Instructor. Course fee includes the $120 CKC/AWA reinvestment fee. If you have already paid this fee for 2026, please email info@paddleuaps.com to reduce your course fee. 

Prerequisites:

• Minimum Age: 14 years old to take the training course, 16 years old for the evaluation following the course. 
• Must have intermediate flatwater skills
• You must be an AWA member (Please note if you are a UAPS member, you have already paid your AWA membership fee for the year). If you are not an AWA member through a local club, you can become a member here. Ceyana members are not AWA members by default and must register for an individual membership for $15. Alternately, you can become a UAPS Member for other great benefits.
• You must supply and transport your own whitewater kayak to the pool and pond OR arrange with course organizers to borrow one. Grand Trunk does not have boats to loan out. Touring kayaks are too large for the course.
  

Date/location:

• Friday, May 1 -  Grand Trunk Pool, 7-9 pm, classroom session
• Saturday, May 2 - Grand Trunk Pool. There will be a classroom session from 11-3pm, and pool from 4-9pm. Bring lunch for the classroom session. 
• Sunday, May 3 - Hermitage Pond, start time tbd

Environment: Teaching beginners in the pool and on outdoor flatwater, such as lakes canals, ponds or non-moving water sites (flow less than 10 metres/minute)

Full details and registration here: NCCP Pool & Lake Instructor Course